“I did not mean to shame you.”
“Not everyone picks up languages quickly. I’m working on it. That’s all.”
“Grammar readers are incredibly tedious. Let me find you something better.” He scanned the tables, searching for the perfect book.
She picked up a book, seemingly at random. “It’s amazing how you can tell the genre, even if you don’t understand the language. Blue-gray cover. Haunting landscape. No people. This is a mystery or a thriller.”
Talen recognized the author’s name. “A mystery.”
She crouched down next to a box on the ground and thumbed through the books. With a grin, she held up a red volume with two Corravian males embracing a female. Neither man had a shirt and the female was clearly enjoying her predicament. “This one’s a romance,” she said. She glanced at the cover agai
